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1 Libellus Novus Politicus Emblematicus Civitatum Pars Sexta Title Pages Daniel Meisner 1638 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6 x 5 inches) This is the title page for part six of Paulus Furst's edition of Meisner's famous emblem book. The corner medallions illustrate the four humors or temperaments: Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic. An illustration of a sailing ship above the title includes the Latin phrase, Silentio et Spe Fortitudo Mea (in silence and hope will be your strength) with a landscape below ...

2 [Lot of 2] Nieuwen Atlas, ofte Werelt Beschryvinge ende volkome afbeeldinge van verscheyde Coninckrycken, Landen ende Provintien, Tweede Deel [and] Atlas Scholasticus et Itinerarius Title Pages 1641-1718   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) Nieuwen Atlas, ofte Werelt Beschryvinge ende volkome afbeeldinge van verscheyde Coninckrycken, Landen ende Provintien, Tweede Deel., by Jan Jansson, 1641, hand color, (19.2 x 15.2"). This is a very beautiful and elaborate introduction page. Raised on a theatrical stage, the four women in center represent the continents (Asia, Europe, America and Africa from left to right). The top thi...

3 Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederatae Title Pages, Netherlands Johannes Blaeu 1649 A   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.8 x 16.3 inches) This title page is from Blaeu's great town book of the Netherlands. This sheet introduced the volume devoted to the northern or free part of the Netherlands or United Provinces. At top, under bright sun rays, two royal lions support a crowned armorial shield with the same lion emblem triumphantly waving a sword in one paw and a bunch of arrows in the other. To the left of the title are t...

4 Introduction a la Fortification Title Pages Nicholas de Fer 1705 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.7 x 7.5 inches) This small sheet introduces De Fer's treatise on the design and construction of fortifications. The title separates an army battle at top from a sea battle at bottom.

5 Atlas Historique Title Pages Henry Abraham Chatelain 1705-1708 A+   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.4 x 15.3 inches) The frontispiece from the first volume of Chatelain's historical atlas depicts four figures in the foreground representing the classical muses of Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography. Each figure holds an instrument representing her art or science. From left, Chronology holds a series of portraits strung on a ribbon, History holds a book and quill pen, Navigation holds a rigged sailing ...

6 Gedrukt tot Amsterdam by Ioannes van Keulen Boeck Zee-kaardt Verkooper en Graad-boogh maker aande Oost Zyde vande Nieuwebrug inde Gekroonde Lootsman Title Pages Johannes van Keulen 1709 B+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 20.5 inches) This allegorical frontispiece was previously used for the first edition of the Zee-Atlas in 1680. It depicts the coronation of the sea-god Neptune, who is receiving a crown, decorated with the sterns of six galleons, from a female figure wearing a crown comprised of ship bows. The other five female figures surrounding Neptune represent the continents. On the right are North and South Ame...

7 Atlas Historique Tome III Title Pages Henry Abraham Chatelain 1710 A+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 15 inches) The frontispiece from the third volume of Chatelain's historical atlas is almost identical in design to that from the second volume, although more rare as it was not normally used. The difference in engraving between the second and third volumes is the wording on both the large circular plinth at the base and the roof fragment below it, which state: 'Atlas Historique tom. 2 Second Part or ...

8 [Lot of 2] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, Regna et Status exactis Tabulis Geographice demonstrans' [and] Atlas Title Pages 1710-1740   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, Regna et Status exactis Tabulis Geogrpahice demonstrans', by Homann, ca. 1710, (11.2 x 19.3"). This engraved sheet has many allegorical figures gathered in front of a large globe. Standing atop the globe, Atlas and Hercules hold up the heavens. In the background, bats and owls fly in the night sky while storks and eagles fly toward the sun. In the ...

9 Atlas Historique Tome IV Title Pages Henry Abraham Chatelain 1714-1719 A+   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.4 x 15.2 inches) The frontispiece from the fourth volume of Chatelain's historical atlas depicts the northern regions of Europe. Flanked by two bears, the large medallion titled Septentrio shows the wind of the north. The primary crowned females symbolize the royal kingdoms of Denmark (on the left) and Austria (on the right) with their corresponding armorial shield. The Austrian figure is standing on the...

10 Atlas Novus ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis Title Pages Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier 1730 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.8 x 19 inches) The famous Dutch artist Romain de Hooghe engraved this beautiful allegorical title page. The resplendent scene depicts Europa receiving tribute from the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Americas. Opposite, the figure of Geography is unfurling a map for Mars. In the background Atlas holds up the heavens and Apollo drives his chariot across the sky. In the foreground, several river gods an...

11 [Lot of 5] Typus Orbis Terrarum [and] Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio [and] Africae Tabula Nova [and] Asiae nova Descr [and] Europa World & Continents Abraham Ortelius 1577-1608 A   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) Typus Orbis Terrarum, published by Pietro Marchetti, from Il Theatro del Mondo, circa 1608 (4.1 X 3.1"). This map is based on Ortelius' famous oval map of the world. Huge polar continents provide balance for the world's continents and a Northwest Passage is prominently featured. Italian text on verso. Ref: Shirley #214. 2) Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova De...

12 [Lot of 4 - Continents] Continents Guillaume Danet 1732 B+   $4,250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 27.5 x 19.3 inches) A matched set of some of the most distinctive and decorative maps of the 18th century. It is the border decorations that make these map stand out; each is intricately engraved with ornamental elements. The maps were drawn and engraved by J. Luillier and published by Guillaume Danet, son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer. Danet was not a prolific publisher and these separately issued maps are quite scar...

13 [Lot of 3 - Thematic Maps] Continents Alexander K. Johnston 1852-54 B   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Nice lot of thematic maps from the English version of Heinrich Berghaus' Physikalischer Atlas, the first truly comprehensive thematic atlas. These are very early examples of printed color, the development of which made a huge impact on cartography in general and specifically on the graphic portrayal of geographical data on thematic maps. Each is surrounded in a keyboard style border.

14 Carta Marina Nuova Tavola World Ruscelli 1561 B+   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.5 x 6.8 inches) Ruscelli's mariner's map is based on Gastaldi's map of 1548. The landmasses are shown with little interior detail but with a fair number of coastal place names. The North American continent is most interesting with the western coastline extending to join Asia, and conversely the eastern coastline connects to Greenland and then onto Scandinavia. The continent is nearly divided by a large inland ...

15 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Abraham Ortelius 1575 A   $6,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 13.5 inches) This is the first (of three) world maps that were included in Ortelius' famous atlas. It is a simplified reduction of Mercator's influential map of 1569 presented on an oval projection rather than the projection for which Mercator is now famous. From surviving correspondence, it is known that Mercator encouraged Ortelius and provided him with information, particularly with coordinates of places ...

16 Discorso Intorno alla Carta da Navigare World Tomaso Porcacchi 1590 A+   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.5 x 4 inches) This nautical world map, engraved by Girolamo Porro, was one of two world maps included in Porcacchi's popular pocket-sized atlas. It covers most of the world, excluding far eastern Asia and the western coast of North America; thus alluding to a connection between the two. The Terra Incognita landmass dominates the bottom of the map. The handsome map is filled with rhumb lines and the se...

17 [Untitled - World] World Theodore de Bry 1613 A   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.5 x 3 inches) A fine miniature world map on an oval projection. The map is based on Cornelis Claesz's 1598 map illustrating the circumnavigation of Cavendish. In the north, below Terra Septentrionalis Incognita, is an apparent navigable passage with the remnant of the mythical Sea of Verrazzano protruding into the North American continent. In the south is the large southern continent. Quivera regn...

18 Descrittione del Mappamondo World Tomaso Porcacchi 1620 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.8 x 4.3 inches) Charming miniature map of the world on an oval projection, engraved by Girolamo Porro after a larger world map by Camoccio on the Gastaldi prototype. The huge mythical Terra Incognita dominates the Southern Hemisphere. On a full sheet (8.0 x 11.5") of Italian text with decorative capital letter below map and page 193 above. Italian text continues on the verso.

19 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Jan Jansson 1630 B+   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5.8 inches) This is a beautifully engraved and finely detailed double hemisphere map. Strapwork borders enclose an armillary sphere, compass rose and the names of the four elements. The map features the island of California with only a ghost of a coastline continuing to the northwest. Terra Australis has a broken coastline and a notation that ends with the signature of the engraver, Abraham G...

20 [World] World Theodore de Bry 1631 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 6.7 inches) This is De Bry's version of Willem Schouten's map showing his voyage around the world in 1615-17. This expedition discovered Le Maire Strait and a new route around South America to the Pacific and the important Spice Islands. The simple double hemisphere depicts the vessel's tracks with the continents shown in outline only. Above the map are two, head-and-shoulder, portraits of Ferdinand Magellan ...

21 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula World Willem Blaeu 1635 A+   $21,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.4 x 16 inches) A magnificent map featuring a carte-a-figures border with allegorical representations of the sun, the moon, the five known planets, the four elements and the four seasons. Along the bottom are vignettes showing the seven wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus straddling the harbor at Rhodes, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Cairo, the Temple of Diana, th...

22 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Matthaus Merian 1657 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10 x 6.8 inches) This interesting twin hemisphere map features the island of California, a huge southern continent and no trace yet of Australia. The most striking features of the map are the depictions of the sun and moon and Jehovah, in Hebrew, at top and interesting allegorical representations of the elements at bottom; a dragon represents fire, a phoenix for air, a flowering plant for earth and a pair ...

23 [Lot of 2] Carte de l'Amerique nouvellement dressee suivant les nouvelles decouvertes et mise en fransois [and] Carte nouvelle de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique, nouvellement dressee et mise en fransois World Melchior Tavernier (the younger) 1661 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.8 x 11.8 inches) Fine, matched pair of hemisphere maps. The Western Hemisphere shows California as an island, a single Great Lake, and an expansive northwest coastline in North America. A notation describes Thomas Button's search for a Northwest Passage. In South America, there is a small Lake Parime in Guiana, and both the Amazon and Rio de la Plata flow from the large interior Lago de los Xarayes

24 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita per N. Visscher World Nicolas Visscher 1663 A   $1,400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.5 x 12.3 inches) This superb double hemisphere world map is surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wildlife. Visscher's decorations were so popular several other cartographers copied them. Two diagrams depicting the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories of the solar system appear within the cusps of the hemispheres. The northwest coast of N...

25 A Map of all the Earth and how after the Flood it was Divided among the Sons of Noah World Joseph Moxon 1685 B+   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 12.5 inches) Joseph Moxon, a little-known English cartographer, designed this interesting world map for publication in bibles. The map illustrates how the world was divided up among the sons of Noah after the Flood. It is centered on the Old World and only the place names are concentrated there. The rest of the world is shown only with continental outlines, rivers and lakes. The island of California appear...

26 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita World Bastiaan Stoopendaal 1686 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.2 x 14.2 inches) Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658, this is probably the most decorative of Dutch Bible maps. The classic scenes depict the abduction of Persephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the Earth. California is depicted as an island with a flat northern coast...

27 Werelt Caert World Daniel Stoopendaal 1719 B+   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 12.2 inches) This decorative double hemisphere map from a Dutch bible is based on Visscher's similar map of 1663. The surrounding allegorical representations of the continents were copied from Visscher, but the map has been updated to show California as an island with a flat northern coastline, Australia's western and northern coastlines, a revision in the coastline for New Guinea, and the addition of ...

28 Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique World Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier 1730 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.7 x 15 inches) This is Pierre Mortier's unique world map drawn on Mercator's projection. It depicts California as an island and the Detroit d'Anian connected by dotted lines through the Northwest Passage to Button's Bay located to the west of Hudson Bay. There is an erroneous large lake shown as the source for the Rio Norte (Rio Grande River) located in the Southwest, as well as an...

29 Planiglobium Terrestre Minus in hanc Formam Reductam ' World Christoph Weigel 1730 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 11 inches) This uncommon map is based on Johann Baptist Homann's Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utrog Hemisphaerio Caelesti and is embellished with similar engravings of natural phenomena and the starry heavens. However, the map itself differs from Homann's in that it presents an insular California and a different Terra Esonis with the Fretum Anian. The map also retains a faint outl...

30 A New and Correct map of the World from the latest Observations World Anonymous 1730 B+   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 6 inches) This small English-produced world map was likely published by Patrick Gordon in The Geographical Grammar. Gordon's maps were reportedly engraved by John Senex. The double hemispheric map depicts a period of extensive exploration and geographical discoveries. Australia (New Holland) is vaguely formed with some coastal areas undefined. The continent is still connected to New Guinea that a...

31 Mappemonde a l'Usage du Roy par Guillaume Delisle Premier Geographe de S.M. World Delisle/Covens & Mortier 1740 A   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25.8 x 17 inches) This stunning double hemisphere map of the world shows the routes of numerous explorers, including Magellan (1520), Mendanna (1595), Quiras (1605), Le Maire (1615), Tasman (1642), St. Louis (1708), and Antoine (1710). The Pacific Northwest coast of North America is left blank above Cap Blanc, and Australia and New Zealand are only partially mapped. Above the map is a decorative cartouche ...

32 Des Mers on Appelle Mer cette Vaste Etendue' de la Surface de la Terre' World Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet 1767 B+   $140.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.8 x 12.5 inches) This unusual French map of the world illustrates the oceans and seas with extensive descriptive text on three sides of the hemispheres. The map itself is very simple showing only the outlines of the continents with the seas named. The continent of Australia is conjecturally drawn and the northwest coast of North America is completely blank. Printed on the bluish toned paper that was common in F...

33 Mappe Monde Suivant la Projection des Cartes Reduites World Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1778 A   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 9.7 inches) This boldly engraved world map is drawn on Mercator's projection. Most of the northwest in North America is blank except for a notation and hint of the possible Northwest Passage and apocryphal discoveries of Admiral de Fonte. The island of Tasmania is connected to Australia and the coastline of southeastern Australia is indistinctly drawn, but Cook's discoveries along the eastern coast are show...

34 Mappe-Monde dressee suivant les nouvelles relations et assujettie aux observations astromoniques World Robert de Vaugondy (family) 1804 B+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 28.8 x 18.3 inches) Fifth state of this attractive double hemisphere world first issued in 1749. The map has been updated with information, particularly the additional discoveries of Cook, to the year 1802 as noted in the supplementary cartouche. With Cook's discoveries now reflected in the map, we no longer see the notion of a Northwest Passage. However, much of the inland Pacific Northwest is still relatively bl...

35 [Lot of 3] Mappemonde sur la Projection de Mercator [and] Carte Generale du Monde Connu des Anciens [and] Mappemonde projeter sur L'Horizon De Paris et de son Antipode / Mappemonde sur la Projection Polaire World Adrien Hubert Brue 1838-1840 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 14.5 inches) These three matching world maps are beautifully engraved and highly detailed. Each with blank verso and Brue's blind-stamped imprint. 1. Mappemonde sur la Projection de Mercator, 1840, 20.5" x 14.5". Drawn on Mercator's Projection and centered on the Pacific Ocean. Australia is also called Nouvelle Hollande and is completely blank in the interior with just a few place ...

36 The World on Mercator's Projection World SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1841 B+   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24 x 15.5 inches) This delicately detailed map presents a considerable amount of information. The United States is shown excluding the Southwest and Texas. Texas was an independent country from 1836-1845, but it is shown here as part of Mexico. The northern border of the United States and Canada shows the disputed border for Oregon Territory coming down to about the 45th parallel at the Columbia River, which ref...

37 [Lot of 2] Western Hemisphere [in set with] Eastern Hemisphere World John Tallis 1850 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 10 inches) A lovely pair of finely rendered hemispheric maps that are some of the most decorative maps produced in the 19th Century. Both maps were engraved by J. Rapkin and show a circular hemisphere completely surrounded by vignettes drawn by H. Warren, featuring whales, natives, and indigenous animals, with a fancy vine-style border. The original outline color is typical for the period in that it was ap...

38 [Map and Report] Outline of the Geology of the Globe World Edward Hitchcock 1853 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.3 x 18.3 inches) Drawn on Mercator's Projection, this map shows the entire world with an inset hemisphere of the "Supposed Antarctic Continent" that locates Wilkes' Land, South Victoria, Enderby Land and Cook's sighting of 1774. This map uses six different colors to locate geological formations. Along the bottom are the comparative heights of mountains and volcanoes aligned with the position on the map.

39 Macrobii Ambrosii, Aurelii Theodosii, Viri Consularis Et Illustris Ancient World Ambrosius Aurelius T Macrobius 1560 A   $1,300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.4 x 5 inches) This work, written by Ambrosius Macrobius, is a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio. It includes a rare woodcut map of the world illustrating Cicero's interesting theories. This diagrammatic map shows two distinct regions of the earth. The inhabited Afro-Eurasian continent was balanced by an unknown, and relatively equal, landmass (Temperata Antipodunobis Incognita) on the other side ...

40 [Lot of 2] Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca' [Segments I & VI] Ancient World Jan Jansson 1650 A   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.8 x 7.4 inches) Two of eight sheets from the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world. Included is the title sheet and another sheet, which includes the city of Constantinople. The original parchment document was found by Konrad Celtes in a library in Augsburg which came into the hands of Konrad Peutinger and later went to his relative Mark Welser who was the first to publish a copy of i...

41 La Terre Connue lorsque l'Evangile sut Publie Ancient World Anonymous 1740 B+   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 12.5 inches) This uncommon map illustrates those parts of the world that were known in ancient times; covering all of Europe, Northern Africa and Central Asia. The ancient regions and cities are named and large rivers and lakes are noted, but there is little other detail. The cartography is up-to-date, rather than on the Ptolemaic model. The inset at upper right is a double hemisphere world showing the cont...

42 Afbeeldinge der Oude Waereld; Benevens Derzelver Verdeling onder de Nakomelingen Noachs Ancient World Willem Albert Bachiene 1749 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 14.6 inches) An interesting and uncommon map of the 'Old World' showing the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa divided among Noah's sons. The continental outlines are shown according to 18th century knowledge with interiors reflecting Ptolemaic models. The map includes a key in a drape-style cartouche and the title cartouche incorporates a large landscape showing the migrations setting out from the Tower...

43 Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui, cum Zonis, Circulis, et Situ Polulorum Diverso Eastern Hemisphere Andreas Cellarius 1661 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.4 x 16.5 inches) A superbly engraved and embellished chart shows the Eastern Hemisphere with the climatic zones, ranging from Frigida Borealis to Torrida, with planetary details superimposed. The bold engraving carries a nice simplicity that includes countries and some key cities. Australia (Nova Hollandia) is not fully mapped with no coastline on the south and east and a land bridge reaching up to connect to Ne...

44 Voyage du Cap. Dampier a la N. Hollande en 1699 &c. Eastern Hemisphere Capt. William Dampier 1705 B+   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.3 x 6.8 inches) This scarce map shows the route of Captain William Dampier's voyage as commander of the HMS Roebuck. It travels from Britain to Brazil and then to the East Indies around the tip of Africa. The return trip ended on Ascension Island where the ship foundered and was scuttled due to "rotting." The captain and crew were marooned for five weeks before being picked by an East Indiaman and retur...

45 Carte des Deux Regions Polaires' World - Polar Buffon 1750 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.8 x 8.8 inches) Interesting map of the poles that shows numerous tracks of explorers, including Tasman, Furneaux, Halley, Marion and the 1773 expedition of Cook. There is an unusual and utterly spurious Northwest Passage shown from Hudson Bay via Wager Inlet into a Grand Eau des Sauvages down into L. de Fonte and thus to the Pacific. There are many ice floes or icebergs depicted in both pol...

46 Polus Arcticus sive Tract, Septentrionalis' North Pole Matthias von Kinckelbach Quad 1600 B+   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 8.5 inches) This scarce map is a reduced version of Mercator's landmark map of the Arctic from 1595. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These contain the title, the Faeroe Isles, the Shetland Isles, and the mythical island of Frisland. The North Pole is shown according to legend as a large rock in a giant whirlpool and surrounded by four islands that a...

47 Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio North Pole Gerard Mercator 1606 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 14.8 inches) This influential map was the first separately printed map devoted to the Arctic. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These contain the title, the Faeroe Isles, the Shetland Isles, and the mythical island of Frisland. The North Pole is shown according to legend as a large rock in a giant whirlpool and surrounded by four islands separated by r...

48 Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima North Pole Henricus Hondius 1637 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.3 x 17 inches) Hondius' important map is one of the most decorative maps of the North Pole. It replaced Mercator's map in the Mercator/Hondius atlases in 1636, and incorporated much of the knowledge gained by the English in their search for a Northwest Passage to Asia. The cartography is based on Henry Briggs' depiction of Hudson Bay, showing a pair of bays in the bottom of Hudson Bay named Iames his Bay

49 [Untitled Globe Gore - North Pole] North Pole Vicenzo Maria Coronelli 1695 C   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.8 x 14.8 inches) North polar calotte depicting the Arctic north of the 70th degree latitude with a 7-line description around the North Pole. Notations are included to identify the discoveries of several Arctic explorers in Baffin's Bay, Davis Straight, Greenland, Spitzberg and Nova Zembla. The sheet is beautifully engraved with fascinating scenes of men hunting sea monsters and various animals. Coronelli is wel...

50 Die Nord=Pol-Lander fenn North Pole Johann Ulrich Muller 1702 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3 x 2.5 inches) This beautifully engraved miniature map is on the upper portion on a sheet of text. This is the second state, the first published in 1692. The map drew from Johann Christoph Hoffman's map of 1678. Muller exaggerates the double bay of Hudson Bay and a small river on the Labrador coast is omitted. Blank verso.

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